Manifold-book.



N0. 694,l03. Patented Feb. 25, I902.

A. Lawson. IANIFULD BOOK.

.(Applic'lti on filed. Dec. 4, 1901.)

(No Model.)

WITNESSES: 3 3 4 INVENTOR.

ATTORNEY.

THE NORRIS PETERS 60.. PHO70-L|THO.. WASHINGTON, m c.

' backing and carbon-paper.

UNITED STATES.

P TENT @FFrcE,

ALEXANDER LEVISON, or SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

. MANIFOLD-BOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. $4,103, dated February25, 1902. 1

Application filed December 2, i961. $erial No. 84,682. (No model; 7

T0 coZZ whom it may concern: Y

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER Lnvlson, a

citizen of the United States, residing at San" Francisco, in thecountyof San Francisco and State. of California, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Manifold- Books, of which the followingis aspecification.

My invention relates to an improved mani fold receipt and record bookfor mercantile, railway, express, or other business uses.

The object of my invention is to provide a book of this character whichshall be convenient in use, economical in the number ofcarbons required,which shall give secure protection against alterations and forgeries,and the sheets of which can be readily and conveniently placed on recordafter the impression has been taken.

My invention therefore resides in the novel construction, combination,and arrangement of parts for the above endmhereinafter' fully specified,and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of one ofmyimproved manifold-books before use. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing theposition when folded for use; and Fig. 3 is a perspective view of thebook, a number of sheets being turned up and the book being broken awayto show a card Referring to the drawings, it will be seen that myimproved manifold-book is formed in sections, each section comprising inorder, first, a carbon-sheet 1, of about two-thirds the width of thebook, then, below said carbon-sheet 1, a number ofsheets 2, of ordinarypaper, the full width of the book, then a sheet 3 of hard thickcardboard. Each recordsheet is divided into three parts by verticallines of perforations 4, said parts having suitable printed matter 5 andblank lines 6, whereon to inscribe the. desired record. Thecarbon-sheets 1 are of suflicient width to extend over two of saidparts, while the cardboard backing 3 occupies the width of the innetparts only of the sheets above it. The record-sheets and the cardboardbackings are attached to stubs 7 along lines of perforations 8, so thatthey can be readily detached from said stubs, and said stubs and theedges form a book. y

In use the record sheet is first folded on the outer line ofperforations 4, so as'to cover about one-half of the'carbon-sheet, andit is of the carbon-sheets are all bound together to then folded in thesame direction on the sec- 0nd line of perforations, so that the carbonis now folded inside of the record-sheet, as shown in Fig. 2.

portion of the sheet when it was fiat and un folded, which will now,however, have come to the top. The carbon-sheetis double or carbonizedon both sides, so that a-copy of 6o The record will now be written uponwhat was the back of the middle the record will he made upon each ofthetwo terminal parts of the sheet. 'Also an inverted.

or backhanded copy'of the writingwill be formed upon the back of eachpart,except the inner one. ditional security-against subsequentalteration of the record, sincelit is difficult to'erase This latterfeature gives adand rewrite both'th'e original and the reverse thecardboard backingis to pro-' of the record-sheet is pun'chedwith twoholes 9 to facilitate the filingof said part.

The advantages of the above construction are that any kind of paper canbe used'for:

the record-sheets, and the construction does not require anytran'sparentpaper. The car- -bon naturally falls into the position for use for thenext record-sheet when one record-' sheet has been removed, and therecord-sheet is very readily folded in the desired manner,

the fold being twice in the same direction.

The device is economical of carbon-paper.

The cardboard backings are an important feature of my invention, sincethey permit a large number of sheets to be bound into a' book with asmall number of carbons without any danger of transmitting an impressionfrom one sheet to another'sheet. They are readily removable by means ofthe lines of perforations when all the sheetsabove them have been used.

I claiin said stubs and the edges of the carbon-sheets A manifold-bookcomposed of sections, each being all bound together to form a book,subsection comprising in ordera double carhonstantially as described.sheet, a plurality of recording-sheets, and a In witness whereof I havehereunto set my 15 5 cardboard backing, the record-sheets being hand inthe presence of two subscribing witdivided into three separable parts,the carnesses. hon-sheets extending the width of two of said CECELIAPOWNING.

. w 7 parts, and the cardboard backing extending ISON the width of oneof said parts, said recording- YVitnesscs:

IO sheets and backings having stubs to which i FRANCIS M. WRIGHT,

they are attached alonglines of perforations,

